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26th April 2010 |
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It's our birthday! Troika Editions has reached the grand old age of one. We'd like to send a huge thank you to all our artists, collectors and followers for supporting us through this year. The last twelve months have been an exciting time. We have developed the site, presented some fantastic art and made new friends. And thrillingly our google stats tell us that there are pretty much everywhere in the world people who, like us, are passionate about photography. So as we enter year two we will be showing more new art; offering more books; developing our gallery space in Farringdon and revealing some very thrilling plans involving partnerships with some of the leading UK photography spaces, festivals and publications... but more of that in the weeks to come. In the meantime read about a new exhibition curated by Troika Editions artist Matthew Booth; our recommendation of the week; all the lastest news on our artists and this week's theme for our Picture of the Day. Don't forget to spread the word to your nearest and dearest which you can do by clicking here. |
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Matthew BoothUntitled Interior 1 For the inaugural exhibition of photography at the new Smokehouse Gallery in Hackney Wick, "Between Two Truths" Matthew Booth has curated a show which brings together artists who explore the elemental nature of photography and its ability to conjure up the illusion of space. |
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Stuart BailesEcho Interested in photographers who do more than use photography as a recording medium and instead highlight something which is not apparent through normal sight, Matthew has included work by Troika Editions artist Emma Critchley and Stuart Bailes. [left and below] |
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Stuart BailesFutures "Between Two Truths" opens on the 7th May with a Private View on Thursday 6th May, 6-9pm at the Smokehouse Gallery, Forman & Son, Hackney Wick, London. |
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We Recommend: Irving PennFor those of you who haven't had a chance yet to see the Irving Penn Restrospective at the National Portrait Gallery there is still plenty of time as the show runs until the 6th June. Celebrities, fashion and curios all shot in Penn's signature lustrous black and white demonstrate why Penn defined portrait photography for many generations. |
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Critic's Choice: AprilThis month's Critic's Choice is Hin Chua's "After the Fall" series chosen by Louise Clements, Senior Curator at QUAD, Derby UK and co-founder and Director of the FORMAT International Photography Festival. Louise likens Hin to Walter Benjamin's Flanuer in which he "plays an important role in understanding, participating in and portraying the urban landscape and its anomalies. A collector and connoisseur of detail with no specific thesis, he works with just a sense, a feeling and emotion. By his own admission Hin likes getting lost and making photographs." |
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Troika Talk: Picture of the DayThe General Election is half way through and the Leaders' Debates has ignited a new interest in politics in Britain. We have looked back at some memorable political photographs, some of which were taken as records of historic times and others which reveal more about the politician than perhaps they would have liked to show. We start off on Tuesday with the three titans of World War Two, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin as they met in Yalta to discuss the future of the world...... |
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